Text instances have "get_window_extent" method. However, it requires a
renderer instance (because the size of the text depends on the
backend), i.e., the size of the text is only known during the drawing
time.
The easiest ways is to call get_window_extent without any argument,
but after figure is
Hello,
I'm new to matplotlib, but have made great progress in using it over
the past few days (thanks in no small part to this list). However, I
am stuck on trying to determine the width of a y tick label (either in
inches or figure space). I know I can get 'Text instances' of the tick
labels usin
